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| | Ethics and the human genome 591
Efforts to reach agreement on the use of genetic information will be frustrated while the world − and people's capacity to live with truth − is changing as quickly as at present.
doi:10.1038/351591a0
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| | Dioxin damages denied 591
Monsanto has won a famous legal battle against a frivolous and irresponsible lawsuit.
doi:10.1038/351591b0
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| | Policy by stealth 592
Science has become a British election issue, but as yet in an unreconstructed fashion.
doi:10.1038/351592a0
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| | News |  |
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| | Japan's Human Genome project takes shape 593
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351593a0
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| | Back to the future 594
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351594a0
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| | Friction continues over costs 594
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351594b0
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| | Spend to save on health care 594
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351594c0
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| | Beating the tissue shortage 595
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351595a0
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| | NIH publish new rules 595
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351595b0
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| | Killer cows prompt shell suit 595
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351595c0
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| | The UK role in conservation 596
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/351596a0
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| | Tories respond to Labour plan 596
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/351596b0
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| | Satellite launch delay 596
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351596c0
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| | Frustration in Switzerland 597
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351597a0
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| | Japanese biologists produce 'hot' papers 597
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351597b0
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| | Evaluating cancer therapies 598
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351598a0
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| | Conflict in NIH panel 598
doi:10.1038/351598b0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | European Community actions 599
F. VAN HOECK
doi:10.1038/351599a0
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| | European Community actions 599
LARS H. BREIMER
doi:10.1038/351599b0
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| | Advance from Australia? 599
JAN ROHOZINSKI
doi:10.1038/351599c0
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| | Darwinism not tautological 600
MICHAEL E. WEALE
doi:10.1038/351600a0
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| | Darwinism not tautological 600
COEL HELLIER
doi:10.1038/351600b0
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| | Hinshelwood in the Pantheon? 600
HARRY RUBIN
doi:10.1038/351600c0
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| | Novel reading 600
ALAN C. CHRISTENSEN
doi:10.1038/351600d0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Making atoms march in step 601
The use of optical molasses to make atoms cool may now be familiar, by adding onto that a process of velocity-selection seems to have produced the coldest atoms yet.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/351601a0
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| | Cagey carbon conundrums 602
Warren E. Pickett
doi:10.1038/351602a0
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| | Between B cells and T cells 603
Anthony L. DeFranco
doi:10.1038/351603a0
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| | Starting and stopping 604
Geoffrey North
doi:10.1038/351604a0
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| | Our dim and distant past 606
Richard S. Ellis
doi:10.1038/351606a0
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| | Draco's silver lining 607
Steven M. Kahn
doi:10.1038/351607a0
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| | Brilliant rock art and art rock in Australia 608
Clive Gamble
doi:10.1038/351608a0
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| | Dads and disomy and disease 609
Melissa Little, Veronica Van Heyningen & Nicholas Hastie
doi:10.1038/351609a0
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| | Nuclear ballistics 610
David Jones
doi:10.1038/351610a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence |  |
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| | Volcano warning needed 611
JONATHAN FINK
doi:10.1038/351611a0
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| | Is the viceroy a batesian mimic? 611
TIM GUILFORD
doi:10.1038/351611b0
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| | Is the viceroy a batesian mimic? 611
MIRIAM ROTHSCHILD
doi:10.1038/351611c0
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| | Is the viceroy a batesian mimic? 612
CYRIL A. CLARKE, F. M. M. CLARKE, IAN J. GORDON & NEVILLE A. MARSH
doi:10.1038/351612a0
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| | Virus ecology 612
SIGVARD OLOFSSON & STAFFAN KJELLEBERG
doi:10.1038/351612b0
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| | Virus ecology 612
CURTIS A. SUTTLE, AMY M. CHAN & MATTHEW T. COTTRELL
doi:10.1038/351612c0
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| | Original mud 613
C. A. MICHIE
doi:10.1038/351613a0
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| | Formation of membranes 613
D. D. LASIC
doi:10.1038/351613b0
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| | Cannibalism in the Neolithic 613
PAOLA VILLA & JEAN COURTIN
doi:10.1038/351613c0
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| | Cannibalism in the Neolithic 614
PAUL G. BAHN
doi:10.1038/351614a0
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| | Analysis of choroideraemia gene 614
ERIC FODOR, ROBERT T. LEE & JAMES J. O'DONNELL
doi:10.1038/351614b0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Nothing on the rocks 615
Paul G. Bahn reviews Ancient North America: The Archaeology ofaContinent
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Brian M. Pagan
doi:10.1038/351615a0
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| | Cattle killer 616
Len Goodwin reviews Science and Empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal
By
Paul F. Cranefield
doi:10.1038/351616a0
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| | 616
doi:10.1038/351616b0
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| | A manual for all seasons 617
D. P. Lane reviews Gene Transfer and Expression: A
Laboratory Manual
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M. Krieger, D. M. Bollag, S. J. Edelstein & T. A. Brown
doi:10.1038/351617a0
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| | Meat and veg 617
May Berenbaum reviews Plant-Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions
Edited by
P. W. Price, T. M. Lewinsohn, G. W. Fernandes & W. W. Benson
doi:10.1038/351617b0
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| | Firm foundations 618
W. F. Bynum reviews Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1890-1945
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Robert E. Kohler
doi:10.1038/351618a0
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| | Review Article |  |
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| | Comparative methods for explaining adaptations 619
Paul H. Harvey & Andy Purvis
doi:10.1038/351619a0
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| | Crystal structure of an N-terminal fragment of the DNA gyrase B protein 624
Dale B. Wigley, Gideon J. Davies, Eleanor J. Dodson, Anthony Maxwell & Guy Dodson
doi:10.1038/351624a0
Abstract & References | PDF (732K)
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Soft X-ray shadowing by the Draco cloud 629
D. N. Burrows & J. A. Mendenhall
doi:10.1038/351629a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (370K)
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| | Structure of single-phase superconducting K3C60
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Peter W. Stephens, Laszlo Mihaly, Peter L. Lee, Robert L. Whetten, Shiou-Mei Huang, Richard Kaner, François Deiderich & Karoly Holczer
doi:10.1038/351632a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (333K)
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| | Solubility and reaction kinetics of solution−solid reactions determined by in situ observations 634
H. Ohmoto, K. Hayashi, K. Onuma, K. Tsukamoto, A. Kitakaze, Y. Nakano & Y. Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/351634a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (376K)
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| | Relation between crystal symmetry and ionicity in silica polymorphs 636
G. J. Kramer, B. W. H. van Beest & R. A. van Santen
doi:10.1038/351636a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (332K)
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| | NMR evidence for five-coordinated silicon in a silicate glass at atmospheric pressure 638
Jonathan F. Stebbins
doi:10.1038/351638a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (232K)
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| | Biodegradation of refractory hydrocarbon biomarkers from petroleum under laboratory conditions 640
P. Chosson, C. Lanau, J. Connan & D. Dessort
doi:10.1038/351640a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (326K)
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| | Enrichment in saturated compounds of Black Sea interfacial sediment 642
J. A. Beier, Stuart G. Wakeham, C. H. Pilskaln & S. Honjo
doi:10.1038/351642a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (310K)
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| | Rapid change in strontium isotopic composition of sea water before the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary 644
Bruce K. Nelson, G. Kenneth MacLeod & Peter D. Ward
doi:10.1038/351644a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (443K)
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| | Direct measurement of active dispersal of food-falls by deep-sea demersal fishes 647
I. G. Priede, P. M. Bagley, J. D. Armstrong, K. L. Smith Jr & N. R. Merrett
doi:10.1038/351647a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (310K)
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| | Is the guinea-pig a rodent? 649
Dan Graur, Winston A. Hide & Wen-Hsiung Li
doi:10.1038/351649a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (471K)
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| | Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila
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John H. McDonald & Martin Kreitman
doi:10.1038/351652a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (341K)
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| | Development of the light response in neonatal mammalian rods 654
G. M. Ratto, D. W. Robinson, B. Yan & P. A. McNaughton
doi:10.1038/351654a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (435K)
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| | Reversible uncoupling of inactivation in N-type calcium channels 657
Mark R. Plummer & Peter Hess
doi:10.1038/351657a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (359K)
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| | Spontaneous lactation is an adaptive result of pseudopregnancy 660
Scott R. Creel, Steven L. Monfort, David E. Wildt & Peter M. Waser
doi:10.1038/351660a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (335K)
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| | The B-cell surface protein CD72/Lyb-2 is the ligand for CDS 662
Hilde Van de Velde, Ilka von Hoegen, Wei Luo, Jane R. Parnes & Kris Thielemans
doi:10.1038/351662a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (405K)
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| | Uniparental paternal disomy in a genetic cancer-predisposing syndrome 665
I. Henry, C. Bonaiti-Pellié, V. Chehensse, C. Beldjord, C. Schwartz, G. Utermann & C. Junien
doi:10.1038/351665a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (344K)
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| | Embryological and molecular investigations of parental imprinting on mouse chromosome 7 667
A. C. Ferguson-Smith, B. M. Cattanach, S. C. Barton, C. V. Beechey & M. A. Surani
doi:10.1038/351667a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (489K)
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| | Sulphated lipo-oligosaccharide signals of Rhizobium meliloti elicit root nodule organogenesis in alfalfa 670
Georges Truchet, Philippe Roche, Patrice Lerouge, Jacques Vasse, Sylvie Camut, Françoise de Billy, Jean-Claude Promé & Jean Dénarié
doi:10.1038/351670a0
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| | Product Review |  |
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| | Choosing the right reagent 674
Stock up your shelves with the latest biochemicals and reagents to come off the production line, including new phage lambda cloning vectors, a genetically-engineered substrate for receptor-specific mammalian cell attachment, and a kit for detecting Mycoplasma contamination in cell lines.
doi:10.1038/351674a0
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